If its a choice between wrecking my mind and/or body or the faint possibility of becoming a 'genius' (although in fairness, one man's 'genius' is another man's 'shite' - and I'm not getting drawn into naming names there!), I'm happy to remain where I've always been as a performer - one of The Common Herd!

Over many years I've played in bands with drunks and pot-heads (although never with 'hard' drug-abusers) . They all got fired because, good though they were when they weren't in their cups, they couldn't play with the rest of us when they were shit-faced.